FEMINA Miss India finalist, Diksha Singh, will add a dash of glamour to the Zila Panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh. Diksha, a finalist in 2015, is contesting the polls from Jaunpur. She told reporters that she would contest from the Baksha ward of the district and would be filing her nomination papers on Sunday. Jaunpur goes to polls on April 15 and the result would be announced on May 2 after four phases of polling.

 

Diksha has already started campaigning in her ward. “I belong to the Chittori village in Jaunpur and I studied here till Class 3 after which my parents moved to Mumbai and then to Goa. I went to the MES College of Arts and Commerce, Zuarinagar, Goa, for my graduation,” she said.